In this episode of ‘Price Points’, Epicurious challenges bacon expert Eli Cairo of Olympia Provisions to guess which one of two bacons is more expensive. Eli breaks down streaky, turkey, Canadian and Euro before making his guesses!
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I’m a butcher, yes poultry is meat so we deal with that just as much. The reason he got the turkey bacon question wrong is because it’s dogshit. I guarantee you all butchers or meat cutters you deal with are thinking, “if you don’t want to eat bacon don’t eat bacon” when you order it. It’s like asking for a tofu steak. Bleh.

This would be good but I can tell you one problem… being a bit of a whiskey fan myself, I’ve tried many many brands and I think I could identify brand and specific product in many cases just by taste. They’d have to use obscure brands that the whiskey expert likely hadn’t ever tried.

If you ask me, he still got 100%. As he said, turkeys don’t have bellies, so the “bacon” in turkey bacon is just referring to the shape. As for the rest, coming from bellied animals, the guy nailed it.

Canadian Bacon lives just over the border from American Bacon and relies on it entirely for its own existence, but constantly feels inferior so needs to try and insult American Bacon even though American Bacon doesn’t care about Canadian Bacon at all.